ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would like to thank everyone in the book for sharing their work and for gamely taking on the difficult task of talking about it. I am especially grateful to the Profiles artists, not only for letting us into their creative process but also for taking a step away from it to create detailed, technique-based steps.

I want to thank everyone at Rockport Publishers for their hard work, especially my editor and pal, Mary Ann Hall, and Dawn DeVries Sokol, who designed this beautiful book.

Final thanks go to my husband, Jim McManus, who never complained about getting up early with our daughter when I needed extra sleep.

128 | Mixed-Media Collage

Mixed-media collage artists are embracing, unearthing, and reconstructing the flotsam and jetsam of modern life, integrating discards with traditional art materials and novel techniques to create compelling, new works. Original, idiosyncratic, delightful, this catch-as-catch-can approach has inspiring and eye-catching results—but also presents some unique technical challenges. Mixed-Media Collage takes you into the studios of five talented mixed-media artists: Laurinda Bedingfield, Barbara De Pirro, Paula Grasdal, Sharon McCartney, and Teesha Moore. These artists reveal their own step-by-step processes, offer tips on working with unusual materials, and share their insights into creativity and inspiration.

ALSO INCLUDES:

•A deluxe gallery with more than 40 never before published collages by leading mixed-media artists

•Techniques for creating faux encaustic using acrylic mediums, assembling shrines and wall panels out of sew-through interfacing, generating collage materials using simple printmaking techniques, working with photographs in two and three dimensions, fusing encaustic medium with unconventional materials, and more

•Plus: Authors Jennifer Crusie and Alisa Kwitney share their thoughts on using collages to brainstorm ideas and access creativity.

HOLLY HARRISON is a w iter speci lizing in art and design. She currently lives outside of Boston with
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her family, where she hides her secret collection of Elvis-themed art.
Collage for the Soul	The Complete Guide to Altered Imagery
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